Shrubby vine up to 3 meters high; stems subterete, shallowly sulcate, 4.5 mm. in diameter toward tip, densely and upwardly pilose, the hairs brown, up to 2.5 mm. long, closely appressed, the older portions of the stems glabrate; leaf blades elliptic, up to 10 cm. long and 7.5 cm. wide, abruptly acute to short-acuminate, rounded at base, firm, entire, the upper surface sparingly puberulous, the hairs up to 0.16 mm. long, more or less curved, the lower surface yellowish and densely and softly tomentose, the hairs up to 0.75 mm. long, the costa and lateral veins (4 pairs) very prominent, the veinlets coarsely reticulate, the venation of the upper surface conspicuously impressed; petioles 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, densely appressed-pilose with brownish hairs; corollas not seen (yellow, Garcia-Barriga); flowers axillary, one or more (?) in each axil; pedicels 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 mm. in diameter, terete, densely tomentose with soft fine brownish hairs up to 2 mm. long; bracts oblong-ovate, 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, rounded and mucronate, the mucro about 1 mm. long but obscured by the dense tomentose pubescence covering the outer surface of the bracts, the hairs soft, yellowish brown, about 2 mm. long, the costa obscure, the inner surface of the bracts glabrous; drupes 1.5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, 6 mm. thick, obtuse and oblique at tip, somewhat flattened, glabrous.
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2173519, collected at Jino-Gojé, between the Ríos Piraparaná and Popeyaká, in the valley of the Río Apaporis, Vaupés, Colombia, 250 meters altitude, September 3 to 11, 1952, by H. García-Barriga (No. 14399).